Not only does BP seem to have governments, the media and the public around the world against them, nature also seems to be playing for some indefinite other team, but clearly against the oil giant. For a second time, thunderstorms raging in the Gulf of Mexico which have quite a few chances to become tropical storms are delaying BP’s plans to put a final seal on the oil spilling well on their off shore drilling site.
Just when the media and everyone keeping an eye on BP was focused on the final closing of the damaged oil well, potential tropical storms became the bearers of bad news for the oil giant. The thunderstorms will delay the original plans for at least two days.
In the mean time, the work in progress will be protected by a temporary plug yet the crews drilling won’t be sending their workers back to land, not that they have only 30 more feet left to drill. This new well the BP teams are working on will allow them to pump mud and cement into the broken one from deep underground which has been spilling oil in the waters of the Gulf for weeks and weeks before finally being sealed in July.
Staying true to BP’s unusual naming strategies, this effort is called, you guessed it, bottom kill. Remember the huge “top kill” failure anyone? I for one would have stayed away from any new cool name even remotely related to that resounding disappointment.
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